This curriculum guide is designed to promote greater student achievement through alignment of the written, the taught, and the tested curriculum, and to promote broader and higher levels of thinking through objectives, activities, and strategies which integrate content and cognition. The document includes a statement of philosophy and broad goals and objectives. Scope and sequence charts display the core content of the courses and indicate how this content develops over the span of various suggested teaching activities, assessment types, and reteaching and enrichment ideas. Sample units show the instructional planning process, or the kind of thinking that teachers engage in as they plan instruction. The guide includes bibliographies, annotated lists of school and community resources, reading lists, and other instructional resources. (JD)